1 Two bored men

"Waah... Waah."

A cry echoed through the entire compartment of a train, disturbing its usual calmness.

Everyone looked in the direction of the noise. They caught sight of a tender cute little figure on the lap of a woman.

A baby!

The chubby face crumpled, fair skin turned red flushed as the baby burst into tears.

The woman holding him was fast asleep. The child looked at her with a puckered face, then looked down.

His eyes transfixed at something at her feet.

A teddy bear!

It seemed to have slid from her seat.

Baby moved those plump little hands to pull it up. But with the shorthands, it was out of reach.

The crying intensified as the waterworks turned full mode like a broken pipe.

To the dismay of everyone around her, the woman was still wandering in her dreamland. She was sleeping in complete peace oblivious that her kid was crying.

A few seconds later, the passengers frowned their eyebrows in panic...

The baby glided from her lap, to get back the teddy.

As the baby was about to tumble, a hand reached out preventing the fall.

"Oh! Good boy... or are you a girl?" In a gentle voice said the man sitting beside them.

He wore a casual T-shirt, jeans and a backward ball cap.

"So you're a baby boy." the man smirked noticing the bulge by pee pee.

He held him with a hand and pinched the chubby cheeks with another.

"Waah!...wah!" boy's face distorted more.

The man moved on to pick him up, held him on his shoulder and started to rock and swing back and forth.

"Uuuu..." With his huge puppy eyes, the baby pointed to the direction of the teddy.

In the direction of the pointed fingers, his eyes came upon the teddy.

Anxious with the baby's pitiful cries, he picked it up.

In a baby voice, the man said to the toy in his hands, "Oh! You poor thing." Turning to face the teddy he exclaimed, "Does it hurt?"

As soon as he handed him the teddy, the baby gripped it tight in his embrace.

His lower lips were trembling.

"It's a koala bear. You love him so much!"

The small kid who held so many emotions for his toy, this astonished the man.

Even with his bear in his hand, the boy looked insecure.

The guy stuck his tongue out and made weird faces to distract the boy.

'It worked!'

And so the tranquility of the place returned.

He looked at the baby, a chubby face with big bright eyes and a cute smile.

As he laughed two bottom teeth and dimples formed on his cheeks.

Cute!

His curious eyes wandered throughout the place. Turning his head to observe everything, he wiggled in the man's embrace.

"Are you bored, son?" he asked the kid. 'let's find something to keep to in place.'

"I am bored too."

He glanced at the woman who was still sleeping and reached out for a mobile phone in his pocket.

"Let's listen to some music. What type do you like? Classical, rock, hip-hop?"

As if he understood what the man said, the child reached out for the phone.

"Aww! You want to choose a song yourself."

The child tapped the phone screen.

He placed one of the earphones in his own and the other in the baby's ear.

"Woah! You like rap! Ha!"

The child raised his arms and moved them around with the music babbling "Yaya...Yaya!!"

While the lady was still enjoying her sleep, the two bored men found each other. They spent the entire journey enjoying music.

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